Social TV Award-Winning Show, Weak Website By Michael Gay on May. 27, 2008 - 6:19 PM An RFK Memorial Journalism Award is being given to HDNet’s news program World Report for their story titled “A Silent War, A Violent Peace,” about Uganda’s civil war. The award is a great honor for the prog ...
Social TV What to call abandoned blogs? By Michael Gay on May. 20, 2008 - 9:31 AM In today’s B&C Station to Station blog, Mike Malone challenges Lost Remote to come up with a term for an abandoned blog. We’re not ones to shy away from a challenge, so loyal readers what would be a catchy term for ...
Social TV YouTube keeps growing By Michael Gay on May. 19, 2008 - 6:07 PM April usage numbers for YouTube show another month of growth, hitting 4 billion streams. That’s up from 3.6 billion in March. YouTube’s closest competitor is Fox Interactive Media, at just 329 million streams. (Via TV ...
Social TV CBS to buy CNET for $1.8 billion By Michael Gay on May. 15, 2008 - 6:29 AM CBS Interactive is making its largest digital acquisition ever, buying CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, according to the NY Times. This price tops the $1.6 billion that YouTube sold for to Google. “There are very few opportun ...
Social TV Grand Theft Auto IV earns $500M in first week By Michael Gay on May. 7, 2008 - 4:55 PM Grand Theft Auto IV sold 3.6 million copies on the first day, and earned $500 million in the first week. To give you some context, the largest opening weekend for a movie worldwide was Spider-Man 3 at $381.6 million. I’ll po ...
Social TV WNBC overhauling local news operation By Michael Gay on May. 7, 2008 - 10:49 AM NBC Local Media is starting a 24-hour local news channel in New York, and rebranding WNBC as a “content center,” according to the NY Times. NBC’s plan calls for rebuilding Channel 4’s newsroom and melding ...
Social TV ABC.com considers more ads By Michael Gay on May. 2, 2008 - 6:51 PM Web streaming could be turning more into TV if ABC goes forward with adding more commercials to online show streaming. ABC will begin testing multiple commercials in the breaks of episode streams as soon as next week, according to ...
Social TV Ohio newspapers partner, bypassing AP By Michael Gay on Apr. 30, 2008 - 7:24 PM In an interesting announcement, Ohio’s largest newspapers will be sharing their stories with each other’s websites. The newspapers from Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown will ...
Social TV Report: 3G iPhone for $199 By Michael Gay on Apr. 29, 2008 - 7:20 PM If Fortune is right, there could be a game-changing move coming this summer that will bring the iPhone into the mainstream for many more consumers. While still tied to AT&T, Fortune says the 3G iPhone will come with a $200 dis ...
Social TV WashingtonPost.com providing embedded videos By Michael Gay on Apr. 28, 2008 - 6:06 PM We keep pushing for more sites to allow their videos to be embedded. Well, another one is, but it’s not a TV station. The WashingtonPost.com now allows their video to be embedded, and offers two sizes you can choose from dep ...